On Sat, 8 Nov 2003 21:07:16 +0100 (CET), Konrad Kosmowski wrote: > > > By using FreshRPMS (which are build *for* Fedora) and Fedora what do I > > > exactly mix? - I don't get it. Seriously. > > > Packages from freshrpms.net can conflict with packages from other add-on > > repositories and even with future packages from Fedora Core. > > As I said - I've been using FreshRPMS with RHL 7.3, 8.0 and 9 - this > never happened (no conflicts). And speaking of other repos - use only > one! Is that feasible? I mean, do you get everything from a single repository? Isn't mixing of DAG, freshrpms, kde-redhat and other repository pretty common? At least it is my impression based on the occasional problem reports in message boards. > > > What is the price of using Fedora and FreshRPMS? Essential packages come > > > from Fedora, addons come from FreshRPMS, they do *NOT* exactly mix since > > > none of FreshRPMS packages *replaces* any of Fedora packages - they are > > > simply *additional* that coexist together. So I still do not get your > > > point. > > > Not true. The repository contains a couple of packages which override what > > is included within Red Hat Linux or Fedora Core. > > Can you specify those packages? I'am not saying that is not true but > there is usualy a reason for this. Not aiming at a complete list, but gaim, gstreamer, gthumb, nmap, sylpheed, yum, probably a few more. There are users who refuse to use a repository when it updates packages included within the core distribution. --
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